Each year students in our grade eight English program
complete a resource-based "Newfoundlandia"
project. As part of this students select a folklore genre
and compile a paper from interviews of peers, family, and
friends. As well students are expected to write a
dramatic piece reflecting some aspect of folklore.
Student work is displayed and presented to class. In
addition, students present their work to parents during
an evening set aside for the Arts Unlimited festival.
Each year sees the loss of many older Newfoundlanders and
with them goes their stories. This year as part of this
unit we will be having students create a
"Newfoundland Folklore" web page on which they
will present their papers of their collected stories.

Other schools would be invited to share in the project
by sharing their "folklore", Newfoundland or
other, with us through links to their web page or by
sending us stories to be posted on our web page with
appropriate credit being given to the authors.

4.1 Explain how a high-speed STELLAR school connection
will enable or enhance this project.

This project would not be
possible without the STELLAR Schools Internet connection.
At present we have only one computer connected to
STEM~Net and the development of a web page to include
student projects is very time consuming. The provision of
a high speed link to our small (LAN) network will greatly
facilitate this process.

4.2 List other resources required for the success of
this project.

Other resources to be utilized include:

print material from
the Newfoundland section of the Resource Centre.

textbooks

vertical files from
Resource Centre

community resources
- speakers, individuals who are interviewed

Video and audio
tapes

CD - ROMs

In addition, a small
network of 10 Pentiums is being set up from funds
provided to the school through the Information Technology
grant from the school board together with funds from the
school budget.

5.1 Develop a time line to indicate when you expect
students to achieve the intended learning outcomes or
accomplish milestones that indicate substantial progress.

Expected Date

Outcome or Milestone

Date
Achieved

May 1998

Students will have
completed research projects and presented these
to peers, teachers and parents. Projects and
presentation will be graded by English teacher.

June 19, 1998

Newfoundland Folklore Web
Page completed with student work added

5.2 Discuss how this project provides
an opportunity for students to communicate with others
(e.g. e-mail, newsgroups, web pages and electronic
presentations that include text and/or multimedia.

Students engaged in this
project will present their research papers on a web page
titled "Newfoundland Folklore". Students will
also have the opportunity to add images related to their
work to the pages. These will be scanned at some site
outside the school and then added to their web page.

In the research paper,
students will acknowledge all sources through their
bibliography. Standard citation formats for print
materials as well as emerging citation formats for
electronic and Internet sources will be used.

On the web page
appropriate credit will be given to the source of
information or images.